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I have had a Ti 4200 in my system for a while now, I don't really have problems with it .. it can get choppy after some use, but jesus christ this thing is hot enough to melt anything close to it.
Its way too fucking hot. Its an ASUS card, and preforms well. Not overclocked at all, but stock fan on there cause the assembly is not easy to remove. The back of the card looks like it could easily accept a rear side heatsink and fan assembly and I don't know of any that preform well, and I'm gonna need something good here.
Can anyone recommend something I could use to take this card's temperature down to stick on the back?
Bohica 10-05-2003, 11:14 PM Back when I had a GF3, I jury-rigged a back-side cooler with a fan, a stack of pennies, some glue, and 4 paper clips. :shrug:
Jesus christ, did that work? :P Is it bad to have metal touching the little things behind my GPU? I mean I would think it is, no? Maybe not, what do I know.
Why didn't you just get some thermal glue or something o_O
iNVAR 10-06-2003, 03:38 PM yes, it's bad to have metal touching the metal contacts on the rear because those conduct.
so they don't actually make back side coolers?
cause I found this:
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid =1345&page=6
but wanted something with a fan and want to avoid removing the standard fan because it looks like it could be messy.
However, I will do that if necessary, I just don't know if they MAKE SOMETHING BIG ENOUGH to cool this off.
so.
now accepting suggestions on cooling a card that is running so hot it could probably melt any IDE cables that happen to touch it, without overclocking.
iNVAR 10-06-2003, 04:21 PM they do make backside coolers, but its effectiveness is limited.
i suggest you find other ways to keep it cool. is your case cluttered or something? how hot is it inside of there?
Bohica 10-06-2003, 04:22 PM Jesus christ, did that work? :P Is it bad to have metal touching the little things behind my GPU? I mean I would think it is, no? Maybe not, what do I know.
Why didn't you just get some thermal glue or something o_O
Oh, ya. I forgot to mention the small segment of cloth I put on the bottom of the penny stack (I rested it just off to the side of the little hot spot opposite the GPU, so the fan blew directly onto the hot spot). It cooled the area down to only slightly warm, rather than burning hot.
the case is cooled fine, the side of the case is even off now, its very uncluttered and well ventilated.
its a known issue with these nvidia cards, they run extremely hot, and I'm not comfortable with something that can melt plastic potentially in there.
its only that hot when I'm playing games for hours at a time, but it DOES get that hot, and when I say HOT, I mean hot enough where I'm amazed nothing is melting.
Bohica 10-06-2003, 07:11 PM if you can direct even a very small (1") fan on it, it's enough to cool it significantly. either buy one of those commercial coolers, or grab a small fan and rig it on there.
Soup4you123 10-08-2003, 04:39 PM i had a gf4 ti4200 that overheated quite a bit, and i put this (http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=1&submit=Go&description=Thermaltake%2 CBLUE%2CORB%2CVGA%2CChip% 2C%2F%2CGPU%2CFan%2C%2Che atsink) on it, and it worked great... pretty easy to put on, too... jsut had to bend the clisp a bit since they were way too tight
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